Anyone looking for a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) for any full-time perm remote positions, or hybrid to the Boston / South Shore of Massachusetts area? I am #OpenToWork.
I’m a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) specializing in building web, mobile, and API automated test frameworks - from initial proof-of-concept through CI/CD integration, reporting, and team mentoring and training. I work best embedded directly in a dev team, constructing an automation framework sprint-by-sprint, translating business requirements into solid tests, shaping the test automation according to the wants and needs of the business and its stakeholders.
Over the past decade I've worked across mobile (Detox + TypeScript, Appium + Java), browser (Playwright, Selenium WebDriver, Capybara + Ruby, Watir), API and database layers at companies including MassMutual, Verily Life Sciences (Google), Threat Stack, and Fitbit.
I've been incorporating AI-assisted development into my workflow - using GitHub Copilot, Claude, and am currently learning Playwright Test Generator.
Being part of the software testing community is important to me. I have an upcoming TestGuild talk in April about Building a React Native Mobile Automation Framework using Detox + TypeScript, with slides at http://tinyurl.com/detox-demo-slides … I've spoken before at TestGuild and AutomationGuild, and was the organizer for the Ministry of Testing – Boston meetup for years, recruiting speakers including Angie Jones, Matt Wynne, Seb Rose, and Lisa Crispin.
Blogging for me is part of the learning process. I tend to document as I go, creating toy projects to deepen what I am learning on the job. My blog, Adventures in Automation ( tjmaher.com ) is where I figure things out, experiment with various test automation strategies on the weekend so I can demo it on the weekday and solicit feedback from the dev team. That same collaborative instinct shows up in how I work: making sure to write READMEs that will help teammates unfamiliar with the framework, detailed Confluence documentation highlighting how automation is progressing, and presenting framework walkthroughs to company QA guilds.
Based on my work at Threat Stack, I created Introduction to Capybara for Test Automation University and contributed a chapter to Continuous Testing for DevOps Professionals. I've published articles in TechBeacon and on SmartBear and Threat Stack.
- Tech writing sample: Test Automation University: Introduction to Capybara: https://testautomationu.applitools.com/instructors/tj_maher.html
- Coding sample: https://www.tjmaher.com/p/programming-projects.html
- Writing sample: https://www.tjmaher.com/p/media.html
- LinkedIn References: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tjmaher1/details/recommendations/
The most important part about me you should know is: I absolutely love what I do. I love figuring things out. Collaborating with people. Bouncing ideas off teammates. Figuring out the cracks in the software process, the edge cases. Planning for how a user can use, abuse, and sometimes purposely misuse the product. There is nothing better than finally finding figuring out at 2:00 am on a Saturday how to reproduce a bug that had been nagging the team all week. My job is a lot of fun!
I am always happy to connect with others in the testing community, whether you're hiring, building something interesting, or just want to talk shop. Let's jump on a Zoom call!
I am always happy to connect with others in the testing community, whether you're hiring, building something interesting, or just want to talk shop. Let's jump on a Zoom call!
